.30 Carbine at 400 yards

[MrMajestic]

I took the Carbine out yesterday to try 400 yards already being impressed with it's performance at 2 and 300. I am hearing challenged because of shooting, work, jet aircraft, rock and roll and women screaming in my ear. I could not hear the hits on the steel silhouette but certainly could see the hits on the fresh paint! The most accurate load in this Plainfield Carbine is Hornady's 100 gr. SJ in front of Lil'Gun and a 205M SR primer in Starline cases. It has a 400 yard setting on the peep sight and with this load required a neck hold perching the head on the front sight to achieve center mass hits. The lowest setting gives me point of aim hold at 200 and requires two steps up to give me the same at 300. Had a great time and sure got lots of looks and questions from the other shooters. It was a nice change up from Long range/accuracy type shooting. I heard on a history show that the Carbine had/has? the highest shot to hit ratio of any US Military firearm. After wiping the big smile from my face, I believe it!

 

[jds holler]

Those women screaming in your ear; was that in a good way, or a bad way??

I love lobbing bullets from underpowered cartridges at excessive distances. It has taught me that our firearms are incredibly accurate weapons, and should be taken seriously at any range.

Remember the comanchero that Gus shot in Lonesome Dove? jd

 

[MrMajestic]

Most of it was, "get the hell off me!"

 

[jr600yd]

Went to the range with my friend Pete. He’s a big Ruger #1 and#2 fan. So he’s got a 458, 375 and one in 416. Out comes the ammo. Pete says there all cast bullets from Linotype with MV around 12-1300 FPS. Didn’t ask for the load was to afraid. It sure was fun lobbing those big bullets out 2-300 yds. Had a lot of onlookers too!

 

[1lnbrdg]

I was always amazed at Camp Perry after the Carbine match. 100 yds past the target point, the ground was littered with the 110gr balls for about another 200 yds. Those things fall pretty fast after hitting paper.

 

[natdscott]

You shoot should 1,000 yard Service Rifle.

 

[Zero333]

I shoot 12g slugs at 330 yard gongs.
As long as I have someone spotting, I can hit the gong 80 %+ of the time.

With the right light conditions, the spotter sees the slugs falling onto the gong like a brick off a cliff. So because of the steep falling angle, they don't hit very hard and can't hear the hits, only see them from the spotting scope.

 

[jds holler]

 

[2506]

I have heard this saying all my life. "Beware of the man with only one rifle. He usually knows how to handle it in most any situation".

About 15 years ago a few friends of mine were invited by a fellow to go shooting at some property that was an old coal strip mine. We were all military rifle collectors and black powder cartridge shooters. There were steel targets set up at different yardages all the way out to 1000 yards. It was something to lay down and place my Sharps copy 45-70 on crossed sticks and crank the Vernier sight up and fire a 520 gr slug powered by black powder 1000 yards at a 4 foot square steel target. I could fire then lean over and look through my spotting scope and see the bullet falling at a pretty steep angle and she it hit the steel 3then a couple seconds latter hear CLANG.

There was a big rock that was a little over 900 yards from where we were shooting from. It had a 3 foot diameter white circle painted on it. We had loaded up some tracer bullets in 30-06 for shooting in our Springfield 03 and 03A3s and M1 Garand's. With the sights you could set the elevation pretty well but windage was "Kentucky windage". You could fire a couple rounds and watch the tracer which burned out at about 800 yards and then hold off for windage and either hit that circle or come mighty close with the rest of the magazine. I had acquired an unissued Finnish Model 39 B barrel 7.62x54R rifle a few weeks before our trip and had only done a load work up using Sierra .311 diameter 174 Match Kings and shot it at 100 yards previously. I discovered just how accurate that rifle was that day.